About Us

What if you focused on building your business and we focused on finding you the right investors?

Even for brilliant entrepreneurs with world-changing solutions, getting a company funded is harder than it should be. This simple realization prompted us to create Funded House as an entrepreneur/investor networking event at SXSW in 2019. Five years later, after our third official SXSW event and and two international investor-matching trips, we launched Funded House LLC as a stand-alone company. Now we simultaneously build relationships with venture capital firms, making sure we understand their thesis and preferred deal size, while conducting Growth Viability Assessments™ on startups with demonstrable traction.

Becoming a member of Funded House doesn't mean just being listed in our Investor lookbook, although it does include that. If you are invited to sign with Funded House and you accept, we become your investor advocates. From that point on, we are committed to helping you find investors who align with your vision and can move quickly to help you scale successfully. Please see below for a full breakdown of the process.

How it Works

Submission Form: It all starts with you filling out a submission form. This is our first step in getting to know you and your company.
Pre-assessment Call: If your company has raised money before, achieved over $1M in annual revenue, or built a large base of active online users, we’ll reach out to schedule a pre-assessment call. This free call allows us to get a working understanding of your product, operations, and growth.
Growth Viability Assessment™ (GVA): If the pre-assessment call suggests you are ready for Funded House membership, we will formally invite you to complete a full Growth Viability Assessment (GVA). There is a minimum fee of $1,000 to undergo this process.*
Review Call: After the GVA, we will schedule a review call to discuss your answers and make sure no important details were missed.
Report and Follow-up: Whether you qualify for the lookbook or not, you will receive a report explaining your score. If you score a 4 or better on the GVA (on a scale of 1-5), you will qualify for the Investor Lookbook that goes out to our investor partners. You will also be featured in our Innovator Showcase newsletter and be notified of any upcoming pitch opportunities that we are part of. If you do not qualify–in additional to a full explanation of why not–you will still receive notifications of our upcoming private events, be eligible for consulting services, and be allowed to resubmit for free within 60 days.

* Our White-glove Assessment is more expensive but much faster and comes with certain guarantees.

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The world needs a talent agency for entrepreneurs

Let's face it, this probably won't be your last startup. Whether this one makes you fantastically rich or your go out in a blaze of glory, you will almost certainly fall in love with another problem and/or solution down the road. Yes, we are a specialized Startup Development Organization (SDO) but we are in the relationship business. So it is really you, the entrepreneur, that we represent. When your startup becomes a member of Funded House, we accept the responsibility of helping the world–including but not limited to investors–see how brilliant you are.